Jonah 2:4

And I said, “I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again to thy holy temple!”

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

In Context

3Thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, And the flood compassed me about; All thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

5The waters compassed me about, even to the life, The deep enclosed me round about; Sea-weeds were bound around my head;

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Cross References

Psalms 5:7But I, through thy great goodness, will come to thy house; In thy fear will I worship at thy holy temple.

Psalms 42:8Once the LORD commanded his kindness by day, And by night his praise was with me,-Thanksgiving to the God of my life.

Psalms 88:6Thou hast placed me in a deep pit, In a dark and deep abyss.

Isaiah 38:10I said: “Now, in the quiet of my days, shall I go down to the gates of the under-world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:2-10

Jonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. ( b. c. 840.) 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord , and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The… Read the whole commentary →

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